Expected Impact

The PROARTIS project will facilitate the production of analysable critical real-time embedded systems (CRTE) systems on advanced hardware platforms with features such as memory hierarchies and multi core processors. PROARTIS has the following overall strategic industrial goals:

Increased performance, reliability and reduced costs by enabling CRTE systems to take full advantage of advanced hardware like deep memory hierarchies and multi core processors. The use of these features will allow designers to schedule more tasks while reducing the weight, power consumption and the size of the whole system and maintaining the desired predictability. It will also reduce the risk of temporal budget overruns. Application-level tasks will have an execution behaviour free (with sufficient low probability) from pathological temporal overruns.

Increased productivity by enabling software engineers to develop more complex real-time software systems through timing-aware systems that reveal crucial timing details while dramatically simplifying analysis. For example, memory latencies will be predicted with less effort, requiring knowledge only of the total number of memory accesses, rather than the exact memory addresses and memory access patterns.

Reduced time-to-market by enabling trustworthy WCET and other analyses for large-scale real-time systems that will dramatically reduce testing time.